Sentence examples for a class of entities from inspiring English sources

As was noted above, the absence of this ability to refer to a class of entities is typical of a name.

In ordinary language, "individual" refers to an organism or a person, but Gould is using it in the sense of a particular entity rather than a class of entities.

In this case the term meaning is radically different from that in the case of common nouns, in which the "meaning" is their ability to be used in reference to a class of entities, to denote or designate them.

As "Camus at Combat," a new collection of his editorials — he was a working journalist — makes plain, the experience, first, of the Nazi occupation of France, and then of the struggle of Algerian independence against France led him to conclude that the "primitive" impulse to kill and torture shared a taproot with the habit of abstraction, of thinking of other people as a class of entities.

A domain D denotes a class of entities in a space or a semantic concept.

It is a controversial matter whether Quine was right to demand such rigorous criteria of identity as a condition for acceptance of a class of entities.

The traditional realism versus nominalism debate is an ontological debate over whether in order to account for properties we need to invoke a class of entity, universals (see Section 1.2 above).

Frege's Basic Law V entails that corresponding to every property of mathematical entities, there exists a class of mathematical entities having that property.

The main task of a neutral monist theory is therefore to show how, given a certain notions of mind and body, a class of neutral entities can be specified and how mental and physical states can be reduced to/constructed from these entities.

Appendix 7. The formal axiomatic definition of a class of chemical entities that satisfy Lipinski's Rule of Five, using CHEMINF concepts (specified using the Manchester OWL syntax).

Synthetic small interfering RNA (siRNA) is a class of therapeutic entities that allow for specific silencing of target genes via RNA interference (RNAi) and comprise an enormous clinical potential for a variety of diseases, including cancer.